In Sickness And In Health (Yandere M. Genius x F. Reader x Yandere M. Prince)

Chapter 43: It Takes Time

 Very few things came naturally to Haru. In the first place, he didn't know how to register his emotions like other kids and he didn't react well around strangers. Different from others his age, he mostly stuck to himself. Alhough he relied on his parents from time to time, he tried not to. He was very independent that way. No one really understood him, not even when he was diagnosed, but at least he had all the love he could ever want. Still, it wasn't easy.

Haru was subject to all kinds of ridicule. Lots of his relatives mocked him for not understanding when they talked down to him. They gave him lots of smiles when calling him a "retard", so he thought they were being nice and friendly. He didn't get many other cues, so he didn't know they were being cruel. It was only when he saw his parents get mad did he think to ask about it. They were upfront about it, knowing that was the only way he would understand, but he stopped understanding smiles.

In class, when he was playing with other kids, he had to ask people if they were genuinely happy. That made them look at him weird. They felt put off by him, so they stopped playing with him. In truth, he preferred it that way. He had always been made to be alone in school, even in class when they were doing group projects. The brunette was always a bit ostracized, if only because he was very blunt. Even to the teachers, he would ask questions directly, like when he saw one speaking kindly to a child even though the kid was hitting them. He asked if they were happy, but they just said they were, because, obviously, no one would say they weren't to the boss's kid. Soon after that, he learned about lying.

Lying was tough for him. He didn't get how to tell lies apart from the truth, and when it turned out he had believed someone that had lied, he began to develop great anger. There were a lot of fights. He even began to fight with some of his private tutors. Oftentimes, they would lie to him, if only to spare his feelings, but it worked in the reverse with him. He lost all trust in them and began to get violent. Eventually, it all ended the same way with them.

"I'm sorry. You'd be hard pressed to find someone that has the patience to teach him."

"He doesn't even get the basic concepts. No matter how hard I try, he just doesn't want to listen."

"I don't know that I can reach him. Maybe he would be better off with another teacher?"

Overall, Haru wasn't considered smart. He was considered below average in many subjects. Unlike his peers, he didn't know how to spell or read well, and he definitely didn't have the patience for a lot of common puzzles. He failed in every class, including art. The male just didn't see the point in it, nor was he interested in faking it. So, he was pulled out of elementary school and middle school to be homeschooled.

Eloise did her best, but she had never been very smart either. Haru loved his mother, but he still couldn't find it in him to pay attention. So, for the longest time, he had no schooling whatsoever. And then it came to light that Haru was very talented with technology. It took everyone by storm when he began to take apart computers and put them back together. Out of pure shock, his father had tried to learn the same, so that he could try and get through to the brunette. He wanted him to feel supported, but, at the same time, wanted to provide an example for him.

"You're really bad at that, père," was the brunette's only response, to which point the man let him take the reins.

Technology seemed to be the thing that reached him. They used it to encourage him to learn other things, and though he was slower at learning, he did learn. His mother would tell him that math and tech went side by side, along with science. She then attempted to try and get him to spell tech jargon, but he didn't really care. To the current day, Haru still didn't know how to spell a lot of words. Speaking was enough for him. Where it got tricky was getting him to learn Athainian. All his life, he had only spoken Echali, so he didn't see the point in learning another language, nor was he great at it. Then he met his friends.